All Outputs (12)

Affects of Shame and the Postcolonial: Identity, Recognition and Belonging (2023)
Thesis
Kubin, K. Affects of Shame and the Postcolonial: Identity, Recognition and Belonging. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Inspired by the South African novelist and theorist, Zoë Wicomb, this doctoral thesis is based in the nexus of affect theory and post/de-colonial theory. My research was prompted by Wicomb’s observation in her seminal essay, “Shame and Identity,” tha... Read More about Affects of Shame and the Postcolonial: Identity, Recognition and Belonging.

Breaking the Silence: Pain, Torture, Resistance and Bearing Witness in the writings of Palestinian Prisoners of War and Administrative Detainees (1967 2004) (2023)
Thesis
Boulos, T. Breaking the Silence: Pain, Torture, Resistance and Bearing Witness in the writings of Palestinian Prisoners of War and Administrative Detainees (1967 2004). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores theoretical approaches underpinning prison writing with a focus on the writings of Palestinian prisoners of war and administrative detainees who mainly spent many years in incarceration and who started writing in the wake of thei... Read More about Breaking the Silence: Pain, Torture, Resistance and Bearing Witness in the writings of Palestinian Prisoners of War and Administrative Detainees (1967 2004).

Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study (2022)
Thesis
al-Baroud, D. S. Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis tackles the controversial concept of dialogue with the Divine in Sufi literature and its use as an indirect vehicle to transmit a mystically camouflaged social message. The in-depth study offers a modern theoretical framework that examine... Read More about Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study.

A Critical Study of First-Person Narrative in Modern Persian Novels (2021)
Thesis
Farigam, N. A Critical Study of First-Person Narrative in Modern Persian Novels. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis is a critical study of the first-person narrative in modern Persian novels. To my knowledge, the first-person narrative, which I define in this work as one of the thorniest issues in literary criticism in Iran, has never been thoroughly d... Read More about A Critical Study of First-Person Narrative in Modern Persian Novels.

Social Change through Power of Imagination in Arabic Theatre: How the Raḥbānī Brothers’ Works Empowered their Audiences (2021)
Thesis
Albiti, H. Social Change through Power of Imagination in Arabic Theatre: How the Raḥbānī Brothers’ Works Empowered their Audiences. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The Raḥbānī Brothers are known as pioneers of musical theatre in the 20th century in Lebanon and the wider Arab region: they introduced a theatrical form integrating theatre, music, singing, dancing, acting, performing arts and poetry. This fusion ca... Read More about Social Change through Power of Imagination in Arabic Theatre: How the Raḥbānī Brothers’ Works Empowered their Audiences.

The Foul-Mouthed Faḥla: Obscenity and Amplification in Early Women's Invective (2014)
Book Chapter
Hammond, M. (2014). The Foul-Mouthed Faḥla: Obscenity and Amplification in Early Women's Invective. In A. Talib, M. Hammond, & A. Schippers (Eds.), The Rude, the Bad and the Bawdy: Essays in honour of Professor Geert Jan van Gelder (254-265). Gibb Memorial Trust

The Rude, the Bad and the Bawdy: Essays in honour of Professor Geert Jan van Gelder (2014)
Book
Talib, A., Hammond, M., & Schippers, A. (Eds.). (2014). The Rude, the Bad and the Bawdy: Essays in honour of Professor Geert Jan van Gelder. Gibb Memorial Trust

Arabic Poems (2014)
Book
Hammond, M. (Ed.). (2014). Arabic Poems. Everyman's Library

From Phantasia to Paronomasia: Image-Evocation and the Double Entendre in Khalil Hawi's 'The Mariner and the Dervish' (2009)
Book Chapter
Hammond, M. (2009). From Phantasia to Paronomasia: Image-Evocation and the Double Entendre in Khalil Hawi's 'The Mariner and the Dervish'. In G. J. van Gelder, & M. Hammond (Eds.), Takhyil: the Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetics (274-286). E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust

Takhyil: the Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetics (2009)
Book
van Gelder, G. J., & Hammond, M. (Eds.). (2009). Takhyil: the Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetics. E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust

Qasida, Marthiya and Différance (2008)
Book Chapter
Hammond, M. (2008). Qasida, Marthiya and Différance. In M. Hammond, & D. Sajdi (Eds.), Transforming Loss into Beauty: Essays on Arabic Literature and Culture in Honor of Magda Al-Nowaihi (142-184). American University in Cairo Press

Transforming Loss into Beauty: Essays on Arabic Literature and Culture in Honor of Magda Al-Nowaihi (2008)
Book
Hammond, M., & Sajdi, D. (Eds.). (2008). Transforming Loss into Beauty: Essays on Arabic Literature and Culture in Honor of Magda Al-Nowaihi. American University in Cairo Press